SC issues notice to Centre, NGO on clinical trials

New Delhi: 12th November 2013

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to PATH, an international NGO working in the health sector, on a PIL alleging that it indulged in unethical conduct of clinical trials in collaboration with ICMR in 2009-10 in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. A bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and justice Ranjan Gogoi also sought response from the Centre and state governments on the petition filed by an NGO Sama which works in the field on feminist activism and health. The bench tagged the case with other petitions on clinical trials being heard by a different bench.

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